GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| provenance | origin |